This technique is used as an alternated technique when cycling upon awakening. Over the course of 3 to 5 seconds, the practitioner tries to abruptly, determinedly, and forcibly fall asleep, maintaining the intention of either not actually falling asleep or of coming back to himself at the last moment before losing consciousness. Afterwards, separation can often easily be successful. In addition, the following sensations may arise, which only need be intensified in order to definitively fall into lucid dreaming: vibrations, imagery, noise, and so on. In case of alert awakening or awakening to movement, it is recommend to begin cycling techniques from forced falling asleep.

Interesting Fact!

Some practitioners get forced falling asleep so well that they use nothing else besides alternating it with separation techniques upon awakening.

It is never recommend to practice lucid dreaming state more than 2 or 3 days a week! This is categorically forbidden for novices and is motivated by external factors, in addition to a whole slew of other reasons, mainly psychological. Ideally, over the first months or even years, it’s best to only concentrate on attempts before days off from work, when there’s no need to wake up early or it’s possible to take afternoon naps. Never make any attempts at leaving the body on other days. During them, try to divert yourself from lucid dreaming and busy yourself with matters and other practices far removed from it.

Of course, if lucid dreaming starts to occur spontaneously during such breaks, then there’s no need to run away from it. Take advantage of those opportunities, making use of your entire technique repertoire and practical skill.

Over time, only experienced practitioners will be able to set themselves an ideal schedule that does not affect the quality of their attempts. Some may even do it every day. However, there’s no sense in forcing yourself to that level. It’s simply not possible for the average novice, no matter how well he has picked up on the all the most important aspects of the practice.

Interesting Fact!

Even the School’s beginner seminars take the form of 3-days of lessons with two nights of practice in a row. For a large number of reasons, this is just as effective as if the seminar lasted for an entire 5 days, for example.

If a practitioner has been trying lucid dreaming entrance techniques every day or almost every day, he should take a break for 1 to 2 weeks in order to start doing them on the right schedule – two or three times per week.

You should try to enter lucid dreaming only 2 to 3 days a week, regardless of whether or not your attempts are successful. This should be a simply mandatory rule, so that you don’t suffer from emotional exhaustion or hit a wall with your practice. When correctly following it, you can have many lucid dreaming experiences over a single day, which is why even 2 to 3 days a week is totally sufficient for making constant progress.

Ignoring this rule can lead to quite severe consequences for one’s practice: lucid dreaming entrance will simply not happen at all, and a block in one’s practice may arise due to the lack of success. That block will worsen until complete loss of faith in one’s own abilities or even the phenomenon itself occurs. The only cure is an even longer break during the week, which it is helpful to take periodically anyway, even when one’s practice is successful. To put it bluntly, a lucid dreamr should keep to a certain rhythm and cycle during good times and bad, as does the rest of the world.

Experienced practitioners or those who can easily concentrate their will are often able to take on the form they want without using any special techniques. It is often enough for them to simply intensely desire to take on one form or another, and that form comes to them, be it abruptly or gradually. Ultimately, this is what all lucid dreamingrs should strive for. For example, if a practitioner has decided to transform into a dragon, then he will concentrate his intention on that desire, and his bodily sensations will go into a state of flux, and then stabilize again once he has already transmutated. Alternatively, he will simply begin to perceivably mutate into a fire-breathing dragon. Also of good help when performing this technique are elixirs, tablets, and potions that can be programmed in lucid dreaming to have a specific effect when taken.

With all such techniques – and the entire practice of lucid dreaming itself – intention, self-assurance, desire, and purposefulness have significant importance. Knowing specific techniques is often unnecessary if you have a firm desire that you unhesitatingly want to achieve no matter what. Problems with intention and self-assurance always lie at the root of lack of success at transmutating in lucid dreaming. lucid dreamingrs often simply lack confidence in their ability to transmutate, which finds expression in failed attempts to take on another bodily form.

Any lack of confidence when performing the transmutation techniques in lucid dreaming will always be evident in the final result. Meanwhile, lack of confidence indicates a certain level of self-analysis, which in turn is a symptom of insufficient concentration on the technique. That’s why total concentration on and putting one’s all into a technique practically guarantees successful results.

When it comes to deepening and maintaining, it is important to make the transformation of one’s external appearance quickly, or when feeling constantly vivid sensations and actions. Otherwise, a foul will occur if one drags out transmutation or otherwise performs it slowly.

Australia

One night I was dreaming of travelling in a car with a friend and thought she was driving way too fast and then I got bizarre rushing sensations that enveloped my entire physical body and it felt like I was being turned inside out.

The sensations stopped, and then I was fully awake and completely aware and I opened my eyes. I was in my bedroom lying on my back and my body had a blue hue or tint to it (M.R.: no separation and deepening). I felt my arms moving around and I realized what had happened and panicked. I asked to go back to my body and then with a slight tingling I opened my eyes for real (M.R.: wrong action) and I was actually lying on my side facing my partner.

Then I knew the experience was real.

Raleigh, USA

I had my first OBE experience by accident. After my morning workout at the gym, I felt exhausted and came home to my dorm for a nap. When I was awaking from the dream, I felt a tri-location of myself. I was aware and could feel everything in my dream, and I could also feel everything in my body lying on the bed. I also felt a third consciousness falling through the bed. My third one was what I believed to be an OBE to the “real-time zone (RTZ)”. My energy body felt like it was separating from my physical body by falling through the bed. This happened by accident.

I felt like I no longer had a body, but that I was a floating sphere of consciousness. I could sense things 360 degrees around me but I couldn’t see with my eyes because I had no eyes. I could perceive where things were around me though. I had an intense burning sensation in my head and the more I tried to focus my awareness into the astral body, the more the pain worsened. Eventually, I woke up from the experience. I kept lying still and tried to reenter the trance but I was unsuccessful.